Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-11-24
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

Lenawee County.
= William Wallis, aged 60, died at Hough-
ton from the effects of bite received from
the teeth of an insane man.
The Supervisors at Jackson have be-
gun q war of determination against spar
rows by offering one cent head for the
little pests.
I'm Ishpeming the other night James
McConkey stabbed Charles Williams twice.
inficting fatal injuries, in quarrel over q
woman. McConkey was arrested.
Five silver dimes were recently sent the
Reading Telephone on postal card. The
pieces were placed in looped Sits cut into
the card and held there by thread which
crossed the loops.
Walter A. Allen, Of Albany, N. Y,
will put new machinery in the iron works
at Ishpeming and start up again. The
works were built in 1882 at o cost of $780,
600. They were worked for six months at
loss, and then closed down. The works
will employ 400 men.
"A cheeky beggar asked for some cold
victuals at jackson back door the otner
day. "But we have none, said the brawny
Irish girl, who runs that end Of the house.
"Oh, we'll, hot ones will do" replied the
tramp, whereupon Bridget made a sere-
and-yellow mark along the side of his
neck with fatiron which she plucked
from the stove. And thus it is that the
bright hopes of our American nobility
the men who don't work-are dashed TO
earth.
Robert Brockie, farmer of Pavilion,
fell from a load Of corn-s stalks the other
afternoon and struck on his head. His
NECK was aislee~tsd, end hA was picksd mp
for dead, but when taken home it was
was called T66ss st Sdet8sll 8sliSe S ra5 ard doctor
quest of his friends set the farmers neck.
Brockie continued to live and is now able
to talk. This is said to be the first case on
record, so far as known, where man lived
after his neck was dislocated.
&C. H. Fargo & Co., of Chicago, have
accepted the proposition made them by the
Board of Prison Inspectors and will lease
the building ut Jackson formerly used rs
an insane asylum, which is located just
outside the walls, and will remove their
plant to that city. The cells in the build
ing are being removed to the old sanitary
department, where the insane prisoners will
be kept until transferred to Ionia. The
Fargo Company will fit the building for
zS0, ss1is.,
runs for eight years yet, the lease will be
made for that time. They expect to be
ready in about two months and will employ
100 hands, chiefly girls.
The extension of the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway from Ishpeming to
Michigamme has come to grief. The road
wants to pass over the tracks Of the Duluth,
South Shore and Atlantic, which is a COM
peting line, and strongly objects to allow
ing the Northwestern a passage. IL the
Chicago and Northwestern cannot secure
the right Of way over the Duluth, South
Shore aud Atlantic tracks it will be COM
PEELED TO climb a steep bluff which lies
south of the town and tear down large
number of trestlcs, ore pockets, and build
ings belonging to the Michigamme Iron
| Company, and to this the Michigamme
| Company strongly objects. The Chicago
and Northwestern is at present between the
devil and the deep sea, as far as its Michi-
| CANINE terminus is concerned, and all
work on the extension has been stopped.
| James Wells, OF Amboy, in Jail for the
recent murder of John White, at Hillsdale,
hung himself in Jail. He was very nervous,
fearing that the people would lynch him,
and asked to have some one stay with him
| in his cell. Later in the evening he said
he did not care to have any one with him.
Some of the prisoners in the Jail said they
were awake until or 2 o'clock in the
morning, and heard him moving around.
He was found hanging by sheet from the
grating of his cell. His knees were bent
under him and his hands on the cross-bars
| in front Of him. twas evident that he had
| by force of will strangled himself. Wells
had fine farm of 110 acres in Amboy
notes and mortgages. The latter, to the
amount of $1,000, we're dug up recently
by his attorney, by his direction. where he
had buried them on his farm. He lived
alone, although it is said he had wife and
children somewhere. He gave his age
as go.
| About four miles and one-quarter
southeast of Belleyille lives farmer by
the name of Charles lie Blanc. He comes
forward with the champion snake story Of
the season. He had occasion few days
ago 10 remove several stumps from of his
farm. IT was while thus engaged that his
attention was called 20 hole under the
stump at which he was at work, about the
size of o bushel measure. On looking into
the hols he discovered it full of writhn ,
masses of snakes. As fast as they made
their appearance from the hole he killed
them. There we're twenty or twenty one in
the File. Their length varied from two
and one-half feet to fve and one
half feet. About two thirds Of the num-
Der were blue racers, while Of those re-
naming four were black snakes and the
rest various kinds. Next
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